Repeal of legislation
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 306 of the Code of Virginia |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for working roads in Northampton county |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act providing for the appoint-ment of a commission of three persons by the circuit court of Spotsylvania county, to be known as the board of public roads for Spotsylvania county, etc. |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled: An act to provide for the appointment of a police justice or police justices in the counties having a population of fifty thousand or over |
| An ACT to repeal sections 1468 and 1500 of the Code of Virginia in reference to public free schools for counties and to the literary fund. |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled “an act to suppress tippling houses, the illegal and unlawful sale or traffic in ardent spirits in the counties of Lancaster, Richmond, Northumberland and Westmoreland, and to provide a penalty therefor,” approved April 2, 1902, of acts of assembly of 1901 and 1902. |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled: An act to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An act to provide for the working and keeping in order, building and maintaining the public roads and bridges in the county of Scott, the opening and establishment of new roads, and to provide the funds therefor, |
| An ACT to repeal an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved December 19, 1822, entitled an act declaring the Cowpasture River a public highway. |
| An ACT to repeal an act passed to provide for making or repairing division fences between coterminous landowners in the county Russell |
| An ACT: to repeal chapter 119 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia approved March 28, 1903, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Russell county, and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money for said purpose, approved February 21, 1900. |
| An ACT to repeal chapter 237 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved May 14, 1903, acts 1902-1903-1904, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Russell county, and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money for said purpose, approved February 21, 1900, as amended by an act approved March 28, 1903. |
| An ACT to repeal an act to authorize and empower the county court of Cumberland county, and the judge thereof in vacation, to take charge and control of the clerk’s office, courthouse, public square and jail, and lot around the jail of said county. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the State corporation commission to close or discontinue any private dock or wharf affected with a public use or easement in certain cases. |
| An ACT to repeal an act of the general assembiy of Virginia entitled an act to prescribe the effect as evidence to be given to deeds recorded prior to the year 1865. |
| An Act to repeal an act entitled an act to establish a dispen- |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act providing for working public roads in Prince Edward county, approved March the 3rd and March the 4th, 1896. |
| An ACT to repeal an act approved March 11, 1910, entitled an act to provide for compromise, settlement, and release of State and county taxes and levies, in certain cases, and to provide a method and remedy therefor where grants of land have been made by this State, or by colonial governors of Virginia prior to the organization of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and subsequent grants were made which are contained partly or wholly within the boundaries of such senior grants. |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to prescribe the manner in which a county or city treasurer may, after the expiration of his term, secure final discharge from his liability as such treasurer, approved May 5th, 1903, and to provide for county, city, and town treasurers securing a final discharge from their liability, and to provide a period of limitation after which no suit or action shall be brought against a county, city, or town treasurer, his surety or sureties. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide in cities containing 10,000 inhabitants and less than 45,000 inhabitants, fur the election of a special justice of the peace to be known as the civil and police justice, to prescribe his jurisdiction and duties, to authorize the issue by other justices of the peace in said cities of warrants cognizable by said civil and police justice, and to abolish the office of police justice in said cities and towns and transfer the jurisdiction of such justices in said cities to such civil and police justices, approved March 20, 1914. |
| An ACT to repeal an act of the general assembly of Virginia |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3906 of the Code of Virginia, relative to the punishment of convicts twice before sentenced in the United States to confinement in the penitentiary. |
| An ACT repealing a portion of section 6 of an act to incorporate the Norfolk and Petersburg railroad company |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2498 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1901, in regard to releases on the margin of record books by clerks of courts. |
| An ACT to define intra-state messages and what is held not to be such a message. |
| An ACT to repeal section 4172 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend section 3530 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, in relation to the fees of justices of the peace. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3560 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT to provide compensation for judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia in their retirement from the bench after a service of twelve consecutive years and after attaining the age of seventy years |
| An ACT to validate certificates of acknowledgment to deeds and other writings recorded in Virginia, taken by commissioners of eeds appointed by governors of States other than the governor of the State of Virginia. |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for altering and vacating certain streets and alleys in Norfolk county, not lying within the limits of any city or town, and to validate and confirm proceedings heretofore had in the county court of said county, for the purpose of altering or vacating any such streets or alleys and to limit the time within which remedies in respect thereto or to the closing or attempted closing thereof may be had |
| An ACT to authorize the governor to classify the character and nature of discharge from the service of the Virginia volunteers. |
| An ACT to repeal section 141 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1903, as heretofore amended, and to prohibit gypsies and other strolling companies of persons pretending to tell fortunes and practice magic arts for money. |
| An ACT ceding to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over certain lands acquired for public purposes within the State, and authorizing the acquisition thereof, and any interest therein, and repealing all prior acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act. |
| An ACT to regulate the business of making small loans, by requiring persons charging directly or indirectly a greater rate of compensation than the conventional legal interest rate per annum on loans not exceeding three hundred ($300) dollars, to any person, to obtain a license; by prescribing the maximum amount of compensation which licensees may charge; by regulating assignments to licensees of salaries or wages earned, or to be earned; by prohibiting false or deceptive advertising concerning such loans; by fixing penalties for violation of certain provisions of this act; by prescribing certain duties of the chief examiner of banking division of the corporation commission in respect to licensees; repealing section 81 of the revenue act and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act. |
| An ACT to repeal section 3009 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to provide for the marking of boats engaged in the taking of fish, oysters, clams and crabs in the tidal waters of this State; for the marking of all pound nets, fike nets, purse nets, haul seines and other devices for the taking of fish in the tidal waters of this State; and to provide penalties for the violation thereof. |
| An ACT to repeal sections 693 and 722 of the Code of Virginia |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to prohibit the shooting, for sale, of rabbits in Madison county, approved March 13, 1918. |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for the open- |
| An ACT to repeal section 2466 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Madison, in the county of Madison, approved March 20, 1875. |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to provide a special police for Newport magisterial district in the county of Warwick, approved February 19, 1894, as amended by an act approved January 11, 1900. |
| An ACT to provide for the enumeration of the veterans, the wives and the widows of veterans of the Confederate army and navy, and to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for the enumeration of the veterans of the Confederate army and navy, approved March 20, 1920. |
| An ACT requiring every power of attorney to confess judgment to be signed and acknowledged before some officer authorized to take acknowledgments to deeds. |
| An ACT to repeal section 6326 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to repeal sections 3668, 3670, 3671, 3672, 3675, 3676, 3677 of the Code of Virginia of 1919, and sections 3665, 3666, 3667, 3673, 3674 of the Code of Virginia of 1919, as amended and. re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 3665, 3666, 3667, 3673, 3674 uf the Code of Virginia of 1919, approved March 20, 1920. |
| An ACT to authorize the city manager of the city of Newport News to appoint some physician to attend prisoners confined in the city jail or at the city prison farm for violations of city ordinances or non-payment of city fines, and to fix the compensation for such services. |
| An ACT to repeal section 4312 of the Code of Virga |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Henry county to borrow $60,000 to be used for the purpose of retiring $60,000 of Roanoke and Southern Railroad subscription bonds, and to issue new bonds for the payment thereof at a rate of interest not exceeding 6 per cent. per annum, and to provide for the payment of principal and interest of said new bonds out of money derived from the general county levy, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act. |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled “An act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prohibit fishing within 500 yards of the mill dam across Clinch river at Speers Ferry, Scott county, Virginia, approved March 24, 1914,” as further amended by an act approved March 13, 1918. |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for creating, working, and maintaining public roads in Fairfax county, and defining boundaries of same |
| An ACT to provide libraries in the public schools and to repeal sections seven hundred and fifty-four, seven hundred and fifty-five and seven hundred and fifty-six of the Code of Virginia of nineteen hundred and nineteen. |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to create a school district out of the town and neighborhood of Pennington Gap, Lee county, Virginia, |
| An ACT to repeal Section 2736 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to what counties may issue bonds for eighteen per cent of assessed value of real estate. |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act authorizing and directing the board of supervisors of Washington county to make an annual allowance, as a salary to one deputy sheriff in said county |
| An ACT to repeal subsection (d) of section 43 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Salem, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith |
| An ACT to prohibit school boards of counties, cities and towns from borrowing money except under express authority of law; to declare any loan negotiated by any such board without authority of law to be utterly void; to authorize local school boards to borrow money on short time loans, with certain restrictions; to prohibit every such school board from borrowing money under any general statute in force the day before this act takes effect, and from expending, or contracting to expend in any fiscal year, any sum of money in excess of the funds available for that fiscal year unless in each case the board of supervisors of the county, or the council of the city or town, as the case may be, shall first approve the same; to provide for the removal from office of any member of a school board knowingly violating, or voting to violate any provision of this act; and to repeal an act entitled an act authorizing district or city school boards to borrow money on short time loans, approved March 16, 1918. |
| An ACT to repeal all special road laws now in force in the county of Madison, and to bring Madison county within the provisions of the general laws of the State concerning roads and highways. |
| An ACT to repeal section 3 of an act entitled an act to regulate the duties of the board of supervisors of Scott county, Virginia, and directing them to publish amount of funds received and expended by them and fixing a penalty for their failure to do so, approved March 7, 1924. |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to provide a special road law for the county of Bland; to provide for the working and keeping in repair of the public roads in said county and to create separate district road commissions or road boards in each of the several magisterial districts of said county; and to repeal all acts in conflict herewith so far as they relate to the provisions of this act relating to the county of Bland, approved March, 14, 1924. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 70 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Martinsville, in the county of Henry |
| An ACT to repeal sections 1954 to 1959, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia. in relation to the former prison association of Virginia. |
| An ACT to make applicable to certain waters of the Dan river and its tributaries the general laws of the State with respect to German carp. |
| An ACT to provide increased Confederate pensions |
| An ACT to repeal sections 270 and 271 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the anti-dueling oath. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4228 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to life insurance policies, and to repeal an act entitled an act providing when the defense of death by suicide can be made in any action, motion or suit on life insurance policies, and to define the period after which such policies shall be incontestable |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11, chapter 6, of an act incorporate the city of Danville, approved February 17, 1890, as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3694 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal an act entitled an act providing for the election of the members of the State Corporation Commission by the qualified voters of the State and providing for their terms and commission |
| An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Fredericksburg. |
| An ACT to establish the office of county road engineer for the county of Southampton; to provide for his appointment, compensation, and removal; and to prescribe his powers and duties. |
| An ACT to repeal section 3945 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, requiring railroads to establish and maintain telegraphic and telephonic offices along their lines and prescribing the duties of operators and train dispatchers. |
| An ACT to repeal chapter 84 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, of 1919, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to cause all depositions or accounts in the several banks and banking corporations or associations in this Commonwealth, whereof the depositor is unknown, or the person or persons, to whom such account of deposit belongs, or belong, is, or are unknown, and against which deposit or account there has been no check, draft or order for a period of twenty-one years, by one entitled to check thereon, to escheat to the Commonwealth; and to direct the manner of reporting same, and the final disposition thereof, approved March 15, 1918, approved September 9, 1919. |
| An ACT to provide for the inspection, and to regulate the distribution of gasoline, naphtha, benzine, lubricating oil, and other liquids or fluids used or intended to be used for power purposes; to provide for an appropriation therefor and penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; and to repeal chapter 477, of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to provide for the inspection and to regulate the distribution of gasoline, naphtha, benzine, and other liquids and fluids used, or intended to be used, for power purposes; and to provide penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, to be numbered section 4454a, making it a misdemeanor to receive anything of value, with intent to injure or defraud, from persons engaged in the cultivation of the soil, under a contract for personal service, and fraudulently refuse or fail to perform such service or refund the thing of value |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Henrico county to appoint special policemen for said county; to prescribe their compensation, and terms of office, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, insofar as they apply to the county of Henrico. |
| An ACT to repeal chapter 85 of the acts of the general assembly of 1926, entitled an act to prohibit, for a period of two years, the killing: or capturing, for sale, and the selling of wild rabbits in Orange county |
| An ACT to repeal chapter 252 of the acts of assembly of 1884, entitled ‘an act to provide for working of roads in the counties of Chesterfield, Powhatan and Goochland,” and all acts amendatory thereof, in so far as the same applies to the county of Powhatan, the same not to become effec- tive until approved by the people in an election to be held for the purpose. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of directors of the Central State Hospital, at Petersburg, to convey a certain portion of the real estate belonging to said hospital to the United States for inclusion in the Petersburg national military park; to declare null and void the deed executed by the board of directors of the Central State Hospital to the United States, and to repeal chapter 294 of the acts of 1928, approved March 21, 1928. |
| An ACT to repeal chapter 143 of the acts of assembly of 1928, entitled an act for the protection of certain game in Spotsylvania county |
| An ACT to authorize a surety or endorser of any obligation for the payment of money to execute a renewal thereof in the name of a personal representative of a deceased maker |
| An ACT declaring it larceny for any maker or drawer, with intent to defraud, to make or draw or utter or deliver any check, draft, or order, when such person has not sufficient funds in, or credit with the depository upon which the same is drawn; prescribing penalties for the violation thereof, and making certain provisions in relation to the admissibility of evidence in civil cases respecting collateral agreements, statements or representations as to said draft, check or order, growing out of arrest under this act; and to repeal chapter 401 of the acts of 1928 relating to the drawing and uttering of checks with intent to defraud; and to repeal section 45 of chapter 507, of the acts of 1928, known as the Virginia banking act. |
| An ACT to repeal chapter 756 of the Acts of 1895-96, entitled “an act to provide that the Clintwood subdistrict, in Dickenson county, be, and the same is hereby, made a school district, to be known as the Clintwood school district, and to provide for building a school-house and raising funds for same,” |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled, an act to require the treasurer of the county of Page to deposit all county and district funds coming into his hands in depositaries selected by him and to provide for the disposal of the interest on said deposits |
| An ACT to repeal section 2833 of the Code of Virginia, relating to when and where mules, oxen and horses, distrained or levied on, shall be sold. |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to require the placing of labels showing date of shipment, quantity, and payment of tax on all containers in which scallops are shipped; to fix the price of such labels; to direct the application of the funds derived from sale of such labels; and prescribing penalties |
| An ACT to repeal chapter 252 of the Acts of Assembly of 1884, entitled an act to provide for working of roads in counties of Chesterfield, Powhatan and Goochland, and all acts amendatory thereof. |
| An ACT to repeal sections 322, 323, 324, 337, 596, 597, 598, 599, 600, 603, 604, 667, 906, 940, 941, 998, 1155, 1156, 1157, 1158, 2125, 2126, 2127, 2128, 2129, 2130, 2131, 2132, 2133, 2134, 2135, 2136, 2137, 2138, 2139, 2140, 2141, 2142, al4gl4s, 2148, 2154, 4722, and 5099 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to abolish fees and commissions as a method of compensating treasurers and commissioners of the revenue of counties; to provide for fixing and payment of compensation and expenses of such officers, and expenses of clerks of the circuit courts, attorneys for the Commonwealth and sheriffs and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith. |
| An ACT to repeal section 7 of chapter 407 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1924, approved March 20, 1924, which chapter is an act concerning intoxicating liquors. |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Independence, in Grayson county” |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled 'An act to incorporate the town of Independence, in the county of Grayson' |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled “an act prohibiting the manufac- |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled, an act to prevent the delivery within the limits of any local-option district in Warren, Tazewell, and Giles counties, having voted against the license or sale of intoxicating wines, malt ardent spirits, intoxicating liquors or drinks, unless the same be in sealed receptacle or package, and labeled at time of delivery within, and sale without, for delivery within such district |
| An ACT to repeal section 4988-a of the Code of Virginia, relating to removals to court in misdemeanor cases triable by a justice of the peace. |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to authorize the appointment |
| An ACT to provide for the compensation of attorneys for the Commonwealth in the counties and cities, county and city treasurers, and county and city commissioners of the revenue, and officers and employees performing the duties of such officers in counties which adopt optional forms of county organization and government; to prescribe the method of fixing and paying their salaries and the expenses of the operation of their offices; to provide for the payment of such salaries and expenses; to provide for the disposition of the fees collected by such officers; to provide for a Compensation Board to administer this act; to provide for the powers, duties and functions of such board: to abolish the State Fee Commission; to appropriate funds for the payment of salaries and expenses and for the administration of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act. |
| An ACT to repeal sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21 of an act entitled an act to provide for the construction, reconstruction, improvement and maintenance of the public roads and bridges in Giles county, other than such as are included in the State highway system, and to provide for the issuing of county bonds for the construction, reconstruction and permanent improvement of the roads and bridges, embraced in the county highway system, approved February 10, 1920, and any and all amendments of said sections or any of them, and to provide when the repeal of the various sections shall become effective. |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to fix the salary of the Assistant Attorney General of Virginia |
| An ACT to define the term "machine gun"; to declare the use and possession of a machine gun, for certain purposes, a crime and to prescribe the punishment therefor; to require manufacturers, dealers and other persons, with certain exemptions, in possession thereof, to register all machine guns with the Secretary of the Commonwealth: to keep records of and report transfers and sales to the said Secretary; to allow inspection of records and of machine guns by peace officers; to provide for seizures and search warrants; to prescribe rules of evidence and presumptions; to provide penalties, and to repeal all inconsistent acts. |
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